Sentences with phrase «as a block party»

If you're a newbie to Bushwick, you should brace yourself for hundreds of artists opening their studios to the public for a weekend, which is accompanied by various festivities and neighborhood - wide merriments such as block parties, crazy performance art events and different art exhibitions.

And anyway, it would have been hard to tell who was where for what reason — the Bushwick Collective had themselves encouraged artists to open up their studios during the weekend, seeing as the block party had limited booths available for local artists.

Not exact matches

«It's going to happen pretty fast,» predicts Greg Williams, manager of the B.C. Marijuana Party and Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture, both of which occupy a heritage building in a gentrification - resistant part of Vancouver popularly known as the Vansterdam block.

Lawyers for Ailes and Carlson appeared in court in New Jersey as a federal judge sought to plot the course of the lawsuit in the wake of «rapid fire» motions from the parties, include Carlson's motion to block Ailes» attorneys» request for arbitration.

Airtable recently raised $ 52m of Series B funding and introduced «Blocks» — apps that run on top of Airtable — add access to third - party APIs (such as Google's Cloud Vision API) and a variety of additional features.

Britain's shocking decision to remove itself from the European Union brought more political turmoil Sunday as Scotland's leader threatened to block the move and the opposition Labour Party's leader faced a coup attempt from his own legislators.

«As noted by S&P Global Ratings there is an expectation that in order to maintain our current credit rating the government will seek other revenue measures after the proposed gold royalty was blocked by the Liberal and National parties.»

And, although the AA site said, «a Police Officer who was at the scene also testified on Mr. Perce's behalf, to which the Judge also dismissed by saying the officer didn't give an accurate account or doesn't give it any weight,» a newscast, also on youtube, interviewed a Sgt. Brian Curtis, as the officer that spoke to both parties «a few blocks later».

The Democratic Party is losing the Catholics to Romney, just as Catholics were Romney's largest block of Christian voters in the Republican Primary.

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

The church tapped into the Midwestern tradition of the block party and started what it billed as the «world's largest block party,» a several - day party and fund - raiser.

We do not invite that person to small functions, but we do invite him / her to large functions, such as our upcoming block / neighborhood party.

What began in 2003 as a small - scale block party designed to introduce city dwellers to the nation's best regional «cue is today a barbeque festival on a super-sized scale - over 100,000 people turned out to taste juicy BBQ from some of the nation's top pit - masters over the weekend.

They also can participate in pizza skills competitions and go to special events such as the Beer & Bull networking session and the Pizza Expo Block Party.

As the famed restaurant celebrates its 60th birthday this weekend, the 1200 block of Mass Ave. in Cambridge will be closed off for a block party.

From all the toys I had as a child, my dearest were my wooden blocks and a tea party set.

I purchased 4 blocks of cheese for the party as I already had a few recipe ideas in mind!

If so, have a birthday party using the block as a cake, sing a birthday song, pretend to blow the candles out, and «cut» a slice to eat.

«My parents would make as many as 500 for people at the block party to eat and take home,»...

He's convinced this plan was, as he put it, «born on the floor of the (GOP) convention to punish or get even with the Conservative Party» for holding its convention first, tapping Rick Lazio as its gubernatorial candidate and helping him to block Cox's preferred candidate, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, from getting on the GOP primary ballot.

The Brooklyn Democratic Party's nod is in hot demand because it represents a sizable chunk of the weighted state convention vote — 9.146 percent, to be exact, assuming all the state committee members vote as a block.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

By CapCon's tally, that puts Lazio at 53.33 — enough to block Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting the 50 - percent - plus - one that he needs to get a Wilson Pakula and run on the Republican line as a yet - unofficial member of the party.

In addition to calling for an inclusion of marriage equality in the Democratic Party platform, the language also backs overturning the Defense of Marriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriage rights.

Theoretically, that means Senate Democrats could block Gorsuch if they stood together as a party.

The Manhattan Democratic Party is filing a lawsuit today to block City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito from appointing a pal as Board of Elections commissioner.

The minority party, with virtually no legislative power to block Trump Cabinet nominees as was illustrated this morning, is under pressure from liberal voters to do whatever they possibly can to stop Trump's nominees from being approved.

Tribeca's Jewish Community Project, better known as J.C.P., celebrated Sukkot Sunday with a free block party outside their Duane St. center.

For a start it must be stressed that these parties — loosely termed by Open Europe as the «Malcontents Block» — will be unable to seriously impede the functioning of the parliament.

They responded by developing a strategy of re-establishing their authority over the Labour party as a result, they said, leading to the «reinventing» of the block vote.

«If Melissa puts in her person as commissioner, she gets to place all kinds of friends in jobs,» said Arthur Schwartz, a borough Democratic district leader who filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Manhattan Democratic Party and leader Keith Wright to block her appointee.

Key figures who have previously been seen as potential obstacles to reform by the leadership, such as the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, and Corbyn - sceptic unions, did not block the changes.

The deputy party leader's comments echo those of Richard Reeves, who stood down last week as Clegg's director of strategy and suggested that Lib Dems would retaliate by blocking other constitutional measures if the prime minister failed to persuade Tory MPs to support Lords reform.

At last night's Jefferson - Jackson dinner sponsored by the Iowa Democratic Party, at which Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Martin O'Malley appeared, Sanders took a huge shot at a narrative pushed by Bill and Hillary Clinton (as recently as Friday, on Rachel Maddow), that DOMA was a «defensive act» meant to block a federal marriage amendment.

LACORTE PRESS RELEASE Mayor Dagan Lacorte, Democratic Party candidate for Rockland County Executive, said the Rockland County Legislature must block outgoing County Executive Scott Vanderhoef from installing his political consultant Sean Mathews as the county's real property director at a salary $ 23,900 higher than the previous occupant and for years into the next County Executive's -LSB-...]

It is widely assumed that the three ministers, Grieve as attorney - general, Clarke as a senior cabinet minister, and Green, as a justice minister with party responsibility for human rights, had blocked such radical surgery.

The Ashanti faction within the party sees the total dominance of the smaller Akyem block in the Akufo Addo Administration as an existential threat and has vowed to fight back.

But there was trouble in the Eastern Region as youth of the party blocked the committee from meeting party officials.

Fiscal conservatives (who want lower taxes and lower government spending) are the face of the party, to some extent, but the Christian Conservatives are a significant block (the former Southern Democrats); they were added in the late 1960s through the 1980s slowly over time as the Democratic Party shed some of its ties to the area in favor of stronger ties to the urban cenparty, to some extent, but the Christian Conservatives are a significant block (the former Southern Democrats); they were added in the late 1960s through the 1980s slowly over time as the Democratic Party shed some of its ties to the area in favor of stronger ties to the urban cenParty shed some of its ties to the area in favor of stronger ties to the urban centers.

This week, SNP MPs have been trying to occupy the block of front bench seats on the right hand side of the chamber, to underline their status as the third biggest party.

2 - Partido Popular was the party which spent more effort to block «Catalan statute» (Mariano Rajoy as a visible face).

(b) There has been no significant patronage and appointments to executive positions in various government agencies such as Chief Executives and Executive Directors of government agencies and parastatals as members of our block of the party continue to helplessly watch as these positions are shared by the erstwhile CPC, ACN, ANPP and even APGA blocks of the party and those who have no party at all.

The Party signed up to this at the March conference when agreeing a new strategy whereby ministers lead the way in communicating not only those Coalition policies that are clearly Liberal Democrat ones, but also those which we accept as a result of being in Coalition and those Tory policies we've successfully blocked or amended.

Significant numbers of MPs from both the main parties believe that an elected upper House would undermine the Commons» monopoly of democratic legitimacy and, as in 2012, they will defy the Whips to block it.

The pressure on Cameron to cancel the Saudi contract escalated when Jeremy Corbyn called on him in his first party conference speech as Labour leader to block the bid to provide training for the very prison system that would carry out the execution of the pro-democracy protester Ali Mohammed Baqir al - Nimr.

Ed Balls is to launch a bid to bolster Labour's credibility with business by promising to keep a low rate of corporation tax and attract long - term investors to Britain, as he brushed off criticism from the policy chief Jon Cruddas that a «profound dead hand» within the party is blocking bold reforms.

It has a large contingent of delegates on Labour's National Policy Forum, and wields a block vote at annual conferences that is almost as big as the votes of all the constituency Labour parties.

He says most local governments have a large majority of representatives of the same political party, who are more persuadable to vote as a block.

The left's further insistence upon the right of the Lords to block changes to tax credits as these were not included in the Conservative Party manifesto demonstrates little appreciation for the role of manifestos in general elections.